Word: confessionalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your cover piece on confessions was an able and informative account of a tormentingly difficult problem. You seem, however, to make one doubtful assumption: that it is up to the Supreme Court alone to solve the problem. The justices have the responsibility to determine what the Constitution means by...
Civil rights was not the only issue in which a new liberalism prevailed. Recognizing that morality is no longer defined as mostly a matter of personal conduct, the delegates created a new Council on Church and Society, which will advise the church about stands to be taken on contemporary social...
Court v. Court. Across the country, many lower courts echoed the dissenters' fears by ruling that Escobedo voids a confession only if, as in Danny Escobedo's case, the suspect had retained a lawyer and was not allowed to consult him. By contrast, the California Supreme Court went...
(9 of 12) the Supreme Court sifted 170 confession appeals and accepted five involving six defendants:
¶ Sylvester Johnson and Stanley Cassidy, now awaiting execution in New Jersey, were implicated by a confederate's coerced confession in the 1958 holdup murder of a toyshop operator in Camden. Johnson, then 21 and a schizoid, asked a magistrate for a lawyer, was refused, and confessed after twelve...